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ecchi · 2013-01-28, 02:28 AM

I've never run a proper search engine, but for a while I ran one fed by a feed from a PPC engine, so very little processing power needed. I made enough money selling adverts (down the side of the results) to make it worthwhile (ads shown in rotation, not search specific). I had to close it when the PPC engine folded and I could not find a similar one to replace it with.

I realise that I am comparing apples and oranges, and running a proper search engine is a lot more work than what I did. But the money I made from my engine indicates that if you have the processing power and traffic it could be very profitable indeed. If there were more hours in the day I would looking into this myself, but at the moment I'd have to give up sleeping if I took on any more work!

2013-01-28, 02:28 AM	#5
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I've never run a proper search engine, but for a while I ran one fed by a feed from a PPC engine, so very little processing power needed. I made enough money selling adverts (down the side of the results) to make it worthwhile (ads shown in rotation, not search specific). I had to close it when the PPC engine folded and I could not find a similar one to replace it with. I realise that I am comparing apples and oranges, and running a proper search engine is a lot more work than what I did. But the money I made from my engine indicates that if you have the processing power and traffic it could be very profitable indeed. If there were more hours in the day I would looking into this myself, but at the moment I'd have to give up sleeping if I took on any more work!